Grades K-3 In 1996, Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas presented Guided Reading, the most comprehensive guided reading resource ever published. Hailed for its practical, systematic approach, the book showed hundreds of thousands of teachers how to address the needs of the whole classroom as well as individual readers. Now, with the publication of Word Matters, Pinnell and Fountas offer K-3 teachers the same unparalleled support, this time focusing on phonics and spelling instruction. 
 Word Matters presents essential information on designing and implementing a high-quality, systematic literacy program to help children learn about letters, sounds, and words. The central goal is to teach children to become "word solvers": readers who can take words apart while reading for meaning, and writers who can construct words while writing to communicate. Where similar books are narrow in focus, Word Matters presents the theoretical underpinnings and practical wherewithal of word study in three contexts: 
<ul>
<li>word study that includes systematically planned and applied experiences focusing on the elements of letters and words </li>
<li>writing, including how children use phoneme-grapheme relationships, word patterns, and principles to develop spelling ability </li>
<li>reading, including teaching children how to solve words with the use of phonics and visual-analysis skills as they read for meaning.</li> </ul>
Each topic is supported with a variety of practical tools: reproducible sheets for a word study system and for writing workshop; lists of spelling minilessons; and extensive word lists, including frequently used words, antonyms, synonyms, and more. Armed with these tools–and the tried-and-true wisdom of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene Fountas–teachers can help students develop not just the "essential skills," but also a joyful appreciation of their own literacy.

Word Matters: Teaching Phonics and Spelling in the Reading/Writing Classroom (F&P Professional Books and Multimedia)

Education & Teaching

Pinnell, Gay Su

Fountas, Irene

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

If you're interested in learning more about implementing an effective phonics and spelling program, this follow-up to Word Matters provides all the information. This edited collection is a rich extension of Fountas and Pinnell's instructional system for word study, featuring chapters by the field's most important scholars and practitioners. These educators explore letter and word learning in a variety of reading, writing, and language contexts-with articles that range from detailed observations of individual readers and writers to full-scale analyses of classroom processes and student work. The book includes practical information on how to engage in interactive writing and shared reading, how to use a word wall and word sorting, and how to use effective assessment tools.
Special guest authors include: Billie J. Askew - David Booth - Diane E. DeFord - Dorothy P. Hall and Patricia M. Cunningham - Justina Henry - Susan Hundley and Diane Powell - Carol B. Jenkins - Carol A. Lyons - Andrea McCarrier and Ida Patacca - William Stokes - Sandra Wilde - Barbara Joan Wiley - Jerry Zutell.
Voices on Word Matters will extend your learning as it takes you into rich literacy classrooms, provides you with concrete learning activities, and expands your understanding of Fountas and Pinnell's instructional framework. There are also reproducible sheets and lists for classroom application as well as end-of-chapter professional development activities to support you in your work and in your collegiality.

Voices on Word Matters: Learning About Phonics and Spelling in the Literacy Classroom

Reference

Fountas, Irene C.

Words, Language & Grammar

Provides a list of 7,500 titles, including caption books, series books, and natural language texts, for children in kindergarten through grade three.

Matching Books to Readers: Using Leveled Books in Guided Reading, K-3

Grades K-2 Children want to make their mark–on paper, on any surface, in life. But the difficulties of transferring words to paper can be daunting enough to drown out even the most enthusiastic voice. Enter interactive writing, a new instructional approach in which teachers and children collaborate to produce a written text. Just as Fountas and Pinnell did in their best-selling Guided Reading, the authors offer powerful first teaching designed to accelerate and support children's critical understanding of the writing process. Interactive Writing is specifically focused on the early phases of writing, and has special relevance to prekindergarten, kindergarten, grade 1 and 2 teachers. In a clear, step-by-step format, the authors show how teachers can use interactive writing to teach a range of foundational literacy skills by sharing the pen with young writers: <ul>
<li>letter learning </li>
<li>phonological and orthographic awareness </li>
<li>learning the nature of words </li>
<li>building a writing vocabulary </li>
<li>learning concepts about print </li>
<li>organizing and composing narrative and expository text. </li> </ul>
Important features include a rich array of examples of children's writing, down-to-earth practical advice, suggestions for using children's literature and art in the writing program, numerous photos of children's work, and suggestions for professional development. Additionally, there are thorough descriptions of how interactive writing can be used as a tool for inquiry across the curriculum–in content areas as well as in literature. With this kind of broad application, children can grow to see writing as a lifelong tool for learning–and see themselves as writers, right from the start. The book is filled with practical information on how to get started with interactive writing, with explicit details from specific materials to fine teaching points.

Interactive Writing: How Language & Literacy Come Together, K-2 (F&P Professional Books and Multimedia)

McCarrier, Andrea

Twice before, Carol Lyons and Gay Su Pinnell teamed up as coauthors and helped tens of thousands of literacy educators transform classroom practice. Now, with their latest collaboration, Lyons and Pinnell turn their eye to K-6 literacy teachers' professional development, offering the theories, designs, guidelines, examples, and materials needed to bring about schoolwide, long-lasting change. 
 Lyons and Pinnell asked themselves: "What if we could create more and better ways for teachers to learn from their own teaching? What if we could provide high-quality, ongoing professional development and coaching for literacy teachers that result in improving their students' achievement?" Well, they could . . . and they did. 
 Systems for Change offers specific - and, quite often, unique - suggestions for planning and implementing a literacy professional development course. Everything is covered, including how to get started the right way, what materials are needed and where to find them, what are the best activities for effective, hands-on practice, and how to develop K-6 inservice courses throughout the year. Particular emphasis is placed on how to help teachers of the reading and writing processes improve via coaching. 
 Most books about teacher-education processes are generic in their descriptions. This one is different. It is uniquely designed to enable staff developers and teacher educators to help teachers become effective in their teaching of the reading and writing processes. A framework for conceptualizing professional development programs is presented, along with guidelines, descriptions, and examples for using this framework to create a comprehensive K-6 professional development literacy program.

Systems for Change in Literacy Education: A Guide to Professional Development

Lyons, Carol

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Classroom Management: Primary Literacy Video Collection

Classroom Management: Managing The Day - Planning For Effective Teaching (F&P Professional Books & Multi)

Guided Reading in action. In this two-tape video set, join Fountas and Pinnell as they highlight effective guided reading lessons and conduct lessons with children.Essential Elements, the first video in the set, lets you watch guided reading lessons as they unfold. You'll observe how teachers introduce a text, support children as they read orally and silently, discuss text meaning, use "teaching points" to reinforce effective reading strategies, revisit the text to extend meaning, and conduct word work as needed.In the second video, The Skillful Teacher, Fountas, Pinnell, and the teachers examine how to plan and organize for guided reading lessons. They discuss how to meet the needs of individual readers in their groups and teach for effective reading strategies. You'll discover how to group children, select books, plan the book introduction, and support children in word solving, comprehending strategies, and reading with fluency. There are also helpful hints on finding time to take running records.Two videotapes each about 45 minutes

The Primary Literacy Video Collection: Guided Reading: Essential Elements, The Skillful Teacher [VHS]

Word Matters Meets Phonics Lessons! 
View the essentials of learning about letters, sounds, and words in the context of a high-quality literacy program - components of Gay Su Pinnell and Irene C. Fountas' first book on phonics and spelling,Word Matters - based on lessons from Pinnell and Fountas' new series, Phonics Lessons: Letters, Words, and How They Work.
Phonics &amp; Spelling Minilessons, the first video in the set, lets you watch minilessons as they're presented in a variety of classrooms. View teachers helping children develop phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, letter-sound relationships, spelling patterns, knowledge of high-frequency words, an understanding of word structure, and a variety of effective word-solving actions.
The video shows whole-group teaching, independent work by the children as they apply what they've learned, and regrouping to share, reinforce and extend what they have learned about how letters and words work. You will also see children engaging in learning about letters and words in a word study center. 
The second tape in the set, Buddy Study System, invites you into a classroom for the five-day spelling program where you can learn how to meet the varying spelling needs of children and teach them how to connect their knowledge of spelling to their daily writing. Selecting buddies, building words, making connections, and tools for assessment are all part of what you'll see in a program that emphasizes learning effective strategies, applying principles, and using knowledge of spelling patterns to become independent, competent spellers. 
These videos describe how children learn word-solving strategies and how teachers teach word-solving effectively and efficiently. The tapes are meant to benefit those who are establishing systematic phonics and spelling programs in their classrooms. The lessons shown provide examples of explicit teaching on principles that children in kindergarten, first and second grade can apply both in reading and writing.
Watch these videos and see how you can use an integrated approach to phonics and spelling instruction to teach children how to become competent word solvers.
Two videotapes each about 35 minutes plus viewing guide

Word Study: Phonics & Spelling Minilessons: Buddy Study System (F&P Professional Books & Multi)

With this book, the authors build on their previous work, extending leveled books up through the elementary grades and covering all the different genres that are important to students.

Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6: A Companion Volume to Guiding Readers and Writers

Children's Books

Offering a complete picture of how to skillfully teach meaning making and fluency within any instructional context, Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8, supports you with frameworks for high-quality instruction that describe appropriate expectations for comprehending, fluency, and vocabulary development. Fountas and Pinnell's teaching and assessment frames will give you a firm understanding of your students' reading levels: where they are, where they should be, and what they need to do to get there-for any reader, in any grade, at any moment. You'll also gain insight about the specific demands that fiction and nonfiction texts place on readers and about how effective readers think within a text, beyond a text, and about a text to gain rich understandings. As you learn about how the characteristics of texts help or hinder a reader's improvement, you'll find effective teaching strategies for: <ul>
<li>comprehending, word solving, fluency, and vocabulary </li> <li>writing about reading in a variety of genres and using writing as a tool for thinking </li> <li>using guided reading with fiction and nonfiction books </li> <li>discussing books during interactive read-aloud and literature study </li> <li>taking part in shared and performance reading. </li> </ul>
Fountas and Pinnell's teaching tips, smart strategies, proven classroom ideas, and professional-learning opportunities will lead the way as you discover how to help readers develop effective systems of strategic actions over time. You'll also learn how to take running records of reading behavior to assess comprehension and fluency then use those assessments to inform and differentiate your teaching. In addition, Fountas and Pinnell have also added a dynamic companion resource to Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8: a DVD containing short, focused video segments that illustrate concepts from the book and demonstrate exemplar teaching in real classroom settings. The DVD is also a repository of useful materials to support your work-including blackline masters, forms, checklists, and numerous other classroom tools. Fountas and Pinnell have developed detailed teaching guides for Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency. Perfect for staff development leaders or teacher educators, these guides offer all the specifics on leading a professional development program or preservice course on comprehension instruction with Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency as the core text. Each of the guides is written to address a specific course of study and is available for free download along with its accompanying course syllabus: <ul>
<li>Professional Development Program: Individual Study/Group Study (20 sessions) </li> <li>Preservice Teachers: One Semester Course (14-week college/university course) </li> <li>Preservice Teachers: One Quarter Course (11-week college/university course) </li> <li>Graduate Students: One Semester Course (14-week college/university course) </li> <li>Graduate Students: One Quarter Course (11-week college/university course) </li> </ul>
Click on the "Companion Resources" tab to download each of the guides. Discover powerful ways to help your students read with deep understanding and fluency. Read Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency, K-8 and be part of the big breakthrough in literacy instruction.

Teaching for Comprehending and Fluency: Thinking, Talking, and Writing About Reading, K-8 (F&P Professional Books & Multi)

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